Summer Jam 2021
Summer Jam with Fyütch
Episode 9 | 28m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Fyütch is a multi-discipline artist and educator with a vast creative resume.
Fyütch is a multi-discipline artist and educator with a vast creative resume spanning several decades. Born Harold Simmons II in Gary, IN, he began public speaking at age 7, winning the city-wide speech contest and speaking at the US Capital in Washington, D.C. As an educator, Fyütch leads music, poetry, and performance workshops for students of all ages, and clients like Adidas, Under Armor, and
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Summer Jam 2021
Summer Jam with Fyütch
Episode 9 | 28m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Fyütch is a multi-discipline artist and educator with a vast creative resume spanning several decades. Born Harold Simmons II in Gary, IN, he began public speaking at age 7, winning the city-wide speech contest and speaking at the US Capital in Washington, D.C. As an educator, Fyütch leads music, poetry, and performance workshops for students of all ages, and clients like Adidas, Under Armor, and
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Whoa, please welcome Fyutch.
What's up, everybody?
What's up, everybody?
It's your boy Fyutch.
And I'm so happy to be here.
Thank you.
PBS39 Summer Jam for having me wherever you are.
I want to hear you say hello.
Fyutch.
Oh I was so beautiful.
I have some amazing songs planned for you today.
So let's just go ahead and get right into it.
Let's get on into it.
This right here is my wake up song that I like to do and I'm a teacher.
A little bit of sign language for the song and the sign language goes like wake up.
You put your fingers next to your eyes.
Like I said, open it up, wake up.
So I want you to try that wake up.
Yeah, Scott just woke up.
Yeah.
I just woke up, jumped about the bed, an early riser sun on the horizon and just woke up.
Everything is looking so much brighter.
Thankful that I made it through the night I woke up about the season Deer Lake baby.
I'm gonna be the reason I'm soubry just woke up.
Just woke up.
I just woke up.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I just woke up yesterday.
I thought I would make it now.
Sellersville Blackspace that was faking your emptiness from loneliness.
My heart couldn't take it trying to put a smile but I could fake it now reaching to my friends no one answered the phone.
Somebody help me.
I don't trust myself when I'm all alone.
Colorful piece piece was go.
All that was left was looking at life and Wind Gap won't went dug deep because it hit me.
We've been just into it for that night.
If I can make it to the sunlight then I'll be all right.
Wilson ANIZDA I close my eyes right now everybody jump, jump, jump.
I just woke up and early rise up to see the sun on the rise.
I just woke so much brighter I made it through the night.
I just well come back to see the daylight kabaddi go nuts.
I'll be there.
Just woke up.
Just woke.
I just woke up.
Yeah, yeah.
Everybody's getting Solar Skate along the way.
Wake up, wake up.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Yeah.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Sign that with me.
Wake up wake up.
Wake wake up wake up wake up.
That's it.
Go ahead Rasa Rasa Razo.
Oh let's go this far indicated special.
Why did you give it my life.
But it seems like we both got a demon to deal with anxiety the pressure.
I try to be the one who made a Paco.
When you feel stuck and you feel like no one cares are you sucking in a prison?
I think my skills won't come up at Albright get always be embrace spiritually pray, pray for you menezes' God guide us through what does seem endless.
The worst thing from this Lackawanna you see this week on Beat this week don't treat this like we got Bechtelsville eye witness words fail me after the words fail me nothing anyone can tell me there's nothing anyone can tell me nor Priska help me or anyone I know what time it is.
What don't just go go Jim Thorpe Black Women in History.
I said I just woke up.
Everything changed right.
They were dead.
I made it through the night dress.
Well go.
Got to see the day.
I gotta be the reason I'm breathing and I just woke up I just woke Jeff.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Just up.
The season's hey everything is looking so much brighter.
Yes he is.
Last time.
Yeah.
Let me see that sign with you in.
Hey I just woke up.
Hey I just woke up.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Just let me let me see waka waka waka waka waka waka o waka waka.
Oh man that's so excellent.
I think we're woke up.
I think we are awake now.
I think we're definitely awake.
So what I need you to do now is just clap your hands like this.
Just clap your hands huh.
everybody clap your hands.
Clap your hands everybody and everybody clap your hands.
Clap your hands up.
Let's go.
This song right here is called Family Reunion Speech Divinity Roxx.
Yeah.
Oh, let's go.
Oh, meet me at the Family Reunion.
Oh, you know we're gonna dance to the music.
Oh fire up the grill barbecue.
We barbecue at the family say this.
Oh yeah.
Oh at the Family Reunion oh oh oh yeah oh oh Family Tree check seeing oh my favorite cousin said I miss reminiscing our memories way back when there's my aunt and uncle that lives so far away.
They made the road trip just to be.
It does too.
They smell of charcoal fills the Dublin laughter after you wear Blackspace Tatamy no say telling jokes you would think that I've outgrown that nickname.
I don't like no mo.
That's the only name they know how it goes with the family.
Oh meet me at the family reunion.
Oh, you know, you gonna dance with the music fire fire up the grill barbecue Wind Gap Family Tree oh oh.
Oversight aside at the Family Reunion oh oh oh oh yeah oh at the Family Reunion.
Think about the memories of our loved ones that are gone forever.
In our hearts.
They're living on.
And the reason we have gathered here today to fellowship and celebrate at the Family Reunion.
OK, so I'm gonna teach you a dance during Divinity Roxx Berks I'm a teach you a dance hall copy after me to the LeVar Burton to the right because there's a Macungie Susquehanna down in the middle part in the yeah.
Just like my oh my.
We toss water balloons and everybody's best summers in the country.
How good up the game.
Great DaD for this Landingville to pass to agree to let all the kids.
How can you hit the center and we have to we get the ball Midem Bethlehem Family Reunion.
Oh meet me at the Family Reunion you know we kind to dance to the music, fire up the grill barbecuing at the farm reunion.
Oh meet me at the Family Reunion you know you know we gonna dance to the music by fire up the grill barbecue and at the farm ya know it to the left Yardley Lehigh to the right.
Yeah.
ANIZDA PSEA million down in the middle.
And that's the reunion.
Bob whoa.
Clap it up for yourself.
Clap it up for yourselves.
Excellent.
That's a new joint family reunion.
Most songs on my new album Family Tree The features.
So many amazing artists just like this next song is called Juneteenth.
And it's with my homies, Alphabeat rockers from Oakland, California.
And we did a song about the history of Juneteenth Juneteenth 18 65 when the last enslaved people heard it, they were free and the United States.
So let's go ahead rock this song.
Yeah, yeah.
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
Oh yeah.
Do you know the story of Juneteenth when he is found out that table.
So it is of the 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation freedom.
What does it mean to be free?
Are you going with it is a God given or is there a cost to be free?
The Constitution said we were three fifths human.
How can it be democracy built on stolen land?
Our freedom is a right, not a privilege.
Freedom from the strictures skin color, birth place respect.
The ways are different.
Let's take a trip about a hundred years quick.
Let me paint this picture of America in a civil war.
No more WLVT Mr President Lincoln had a plan to enslave the but black folks when they heard about starts with that word of mouth picked up arms and join.
Are you here to fight for their own freedom?
The colored troops help win the war.
The proclamation no, they come on.
You better believe it.
Julian.
The story of Juneteenth when he is found out that they were free.
Hey, hey.
Two years of the 18 63 days the Emancipation Proclamation, justice.
When have we seen it and knowing who were the ones who have grown it took him from nosiness was just a sucker about soldiers who were risking lives of people like me all the kinfolk they may never know took a lead that we all could follow follow in the foot just as big of the land.
It was for the enslaved.
When you think about that proclamation, the emancipation is no.
We were the brave 200,000 soldiers organizing women and children a whole set of guys and paid for protest to address the power to the culture uprising.
Jeff, do you know the story?
Juneteenth Willey enslaved?
I doubt that they were free through years of the 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation.
Can't stop that joy.
Freedom is not individual collective.
Let me hear you say that freedom is individual.
It's collective Bowmanstown freedom is not individual is collective.
Freedom is not.
When you think about Juneteenth remember how we treat ourselves.
We stay prepared First Day of School we tell ourselves the jails and we will not fail.
You believe your dream.
You move, you say Mark Knouse bars with our culture.
No one left behind.
We can be sure we stand, we rise.
We are there.
Joy ride.
We stand.
We rise.
We on that joy ride say we stay here.
We stay, we rise.
We rise.
We on that joy ride.
We say now the story of Juneteenth when alas enslaved to that they were free.
We led ourselves to the victory.
Let me say victory, victory, victory, victory.
Oh man.
I'm so, so excited right now.
This is some Black Women in History that I did.
We are about to take a trip and travel through time set out to Rissi Palmer Snooknuk.
Let's go Black Women in History Black Women in History story black women in history.
This is her story.
Black Women in History Yeah.
Oh yes.
Starbury Black Women in History Ben Stemrich Hasner.
Let's break it down.
Black Women in History got to say it now.
So it's not a mystery this dedicated to your legacy.
So listen, we let you know where the sisters be last night, Haima first name Fannie Lou civil rights leader helps register people to vote during Jim Crow laws in the 60s.
And blacks vote in this country.
She paved the way for future politicians along with the first black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Kamala Harris made history as the first ever woman elected VP So many celebrities that fought for this Lenhartsville don't fight it Ben Stemrich is a thousand Dan Zanes he looked like Governor Wengen.
So many stories, so many, so many of those.
But this prize Stacey Abrams Policía Davis, so many women are nameless.
Why is it for women history?
Black Women in History story.
This is let me hear you say Black Women in History I Pen Argyl Black Women in History is history herstory and this must love to the Queen Rosa Parks give up Perkasie for real talk.
There were so many women who did the same thing like Claudette Colvin.
She was only finci Harasta because she demanded respect, refused to thought her life was worth less Ida B Wells had a similar tale many years before Rosa Parks went to jail.
I went out 11 double ACP Born a Slave.
She was free in 1863.
One year later, Tribecca Crumpler, first black woman with the J. Hynson and Alfredo went for a swim.
An African American veterinarians.
Fast forward 2020.
Dr Kizzie helps to create Covid-19 back for you Dan Zanes.
This is.
This is.
This is Black Women in History.
Oh, in his story outdance to wherever you are story is breaking down.
You know we love you wives and the mothers sisters, daughters.
You sound like no other.
Thank breathing.
You tell me to thank you for starting.
Your presence is a blessing impaction councilor's Nazareth.
Thank you.
We thank you.
Thank you.
We all man.
So this is one of the first songs that I made for my students in class because that's poetry.
I teach a little bit of music and there's a song I made for third grade class called The Black History Song for Kids.
So I want you to march Black History is the story of you and me goes way back four centuries.
Black History did not start with slavery.
Black History three six five.
Not just February every now I want you to put some sauce, put your little dance to it.
Yeah.
Swagged out just a little bit.
Here we go.
Oh, a story begins in Africa.
What a very first humans to live to from along the now big civilizations like Egypt because shinobi, we already know about the pyramids built by blacks, not aliens.
The African empires are glorious for their knowledge of science and medicine.
Studied the stars.
Astronomy made the calendar 4000 BC math, religion and philosophy.
Europeans came to study as the Greeks so many pharaohs, kings and dynasties, even women were rule is treated equally.
Look around.
Kids are all brothers and sisters because we all have African ancestry.
Black history is the of you and me.
History goes way back for Sancha.
Recent history did not start with slavery.
Black history, not just February.
Do your dance, do your dance.
Do you.
You dance it as if you want to stick your leg sticking.
They figure this there were many black people in America before Spanish and European conquerors.
The My Body Empire sailed the Atlantic went to Mexico to trade with the Mayans Brad Klein to the African Lyons do your research understand?
Thousands of black folks sailed the seas to discover new Lansford epic journeys.
Fast forward to the 1700s when the colonies fought for the independence from the UK.
Remember Paul Revere riding on a horse that the British were here when I was a black guy riding on the side Witwer Tazewell Road through the night there were even black politicians Joseph Roy Reading in the House of Representatives.
Yeah, Is this let me see on March and be like we're marching for freedom.
We're marching for justice.
We're marching for our people.
Yeah, yeah.
Black kids three three six five.
Not just Bambu Tamaqua Tidioute Dan Zanes.
Go ahead.
Put your swag on.
Hey, hey, hey.
That's right.
That's right.
Huh.
Go ahead and do your Dan Zanes.
Oh, man.
We just started.
Let's keep it going.
This do a dance.
Do you dance.
We could dance like that.
Yeah we so we talked about Black Women in History then black history.
Now let's do this for indigenous people.
Let's go one urf one people one one earth one people one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why Earth.
What people.
One of one earth one people one.
So this is something that I wish to learn more about when I was in school.
So my education no more about why we call it indigenous peoples Day.
Say first off, let's define indigenous the native people, the original inhabitants living on every single continent.
This somebody shows up and says I discovered it.
How can you discover somewhere already down take credit for a place that's already around?
I cookies Hernando de Soto pounds Yono Francisco Pizarro.
It all started with Christopher Columbus, Europe's obsession with West Easton discovering what big dreams this wild Allentown Youngsville search for gold and the East Indies line is on no go 14 92.
We all know the story, he said the ocean blue.
But here's what I didn't learn in school after landing in the Bahamas, he treated people crew, the Taino, a peaceful people in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico even though they welcomed him with open arms, he committed genocide and unspeakable evil.
I wish that's where the story is becoming.
Zation is a sickness to spread.
Speaking of sickness, literal diseases, smallpox, chicken pox in the measles.
I wonder how history would change if explorers were peaceful when they came.
Learn native Customs cultural exchange to enforce religion and no one was enslaved.
Aztecs Aikens might have lived longer from South America to Canadian borders, Cherokee Sioux Apache and Navajo Iroquois, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo.
The list goes on.
So many tribes, so many stories, so many lives, so low to the indigenous ones from ancestors.
Those still alive say one Irwandi people one love.
Let me hear you.
Let me hear a one or more people.
One.
Oh yeah one.
one people one.
Oh one one people one.
Oh yeah.
But you one's up put them up put on my four people one one number one.
No one of four people one earth one loves one people one of yeah.
Oh one earth one people one the one the one one man.
I encourage everybody to educate yourselves.
It's time that we make up for the wrongs done in the past and support each other truly.
That's social justice is all about woo love.
My our man is about to be party.
It was already a party but it's going to be more of a party this song me and my boy Uncle Jimbo made about hair celebration.
I love my hair even if had no hair.
Let's rock out.
I went round so proud I got to take the hat off for this one.
I wear my crown so proud Jess.
So many different styles or hairstyles are beautiful.
So many.
We're going to shake it like this.
Yeah.
Yeah I go shake it, brush it out like Mertztown.
I love it.
My crown don't touch it.
Oh shake it shake brush.
I like hush my staff.
I love my crown.
Don't touch it.
I give my crown so proud I've got to show it all round.
I wear my crown so got to show with all the brass so many different style when I switch it up like wow.
So we're going to name different styles.
Let's go Joe waves praise Hellertown.
That's right.
So Nazareth they knock next day I switch it curls Mohamed Afro Afro go off say hey Crozet you make your favorite hillstrand updo.
Do you want to love it every way you play rocket rock dispatches, rocket rocky rocky.
I wear my crown so proud I wear my crown so proud so proud so many different styles like so many different styles switch it up like do rag Weltech Binit for protection silk's copying our rabbit I'm so smooth like satin moisturizes on his side sabera my skin blind in that pinkly you'll see melanin majesty on my oils essential my kearl type of fishermen.
I'm coming down like Birdsboro loud and proud like a whistle.
Halcomb my dad Clarendon afro pick your fingertips some stallion's Portland look and stuff like my one and we I wear my crown so Brown got to show it.
The rally Mark Knouse Albright got to show it all around so many so many different styles.
Wow.
So many different styles.
Laughs Come on come shake it shake brush it out loud.
Kenhorst my staff.
I love it my crowd.
Don't touch it.
Shake it shake brush it out now Kenhorst Mertztown I love my crown.
Don't touch it.
No.
Yeah.
Don't just be touching people's hair.
That's their personal space.
You got to got to ask for that one anyway.
This is the last song I'm going to do.
I had so so much fun with you all.
First of all my name is Fyutch in case you're just brand meeting me that's f why you c c h and this is the last song and this song is about Earth Day and I made a really cool dance to go with.
And the message is every day is Earth Day.
We need to take care of it.
This is our earth.
It gives us life.
It sustains us.
So the dance goes like this.
Pick it up, put it back, switch it up, swap it out.
Pick it up.
Put it back.
Switch it up.
Swap it out.
Pick it up.
Put it back.
Switch it up.
Swap it out.
Pick it up.
Put it back.
Switch it up Summer Jam pick it up.
Put it back Silverdale pick it up and have access to it.
I pick it up, put it something.
Yeah I think y'all already.
I think y'all already and that the hat can go back on.
I think it was.
Let's get it, let's do it.
So wherever you it we're going to make us a virtual dance contest.
We're going to see who can hang with this.
You already.
Already.
All right, let's do it.
Let's do it.
You got you got to get your cool pose.
And this is my cool pose with the arms folded.
My face.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hello, UGI.
I don't know about you but I live on Earth so every let's get it Pick It Up put a bag, switch it up, swap pick it up put it back.
Switch it up it up.
Pick it up.
Put it back.
Put it up.
Speed it up.
Pick it up.
Put it back.
You know Silverdale pick it up at the back of the Nazareth pick it up put it back, pick it up in the back and pick it up.
Put it back, pick it up with no access.
It doesn't pick it up, put it Summit Hill.
Yeah.
Look, we made a mess down to pick things up.
Bad habits Tom Wolf switch things up.
It's so tragic.
Why are we still drinking water bottles made of plastic at least that we can do is get us a refill about the plastic ends up in the ocean killing animals.
The trash on the land is not biodegradable.
Better habits start at home.
Tidioute how are you gonna clean up the Arab if you don't clean your room, soak it and put it back, slop it out, pick it up, put it back, switch it up.
Summit Hill pick it up and have actually just pick it up at about Silverdale.
Oh yeah.
Do you know your grass goes to a landfill but Orefield Doylestown zero waste is the new.
It's not enough if we just recycle refuse if you don't need it don't need reuse it again and again.
If it breaks try to repair it.
You can fix it when you finish and you can share it.
You can donate Palo Alto shoes and sweaters.
One person's trash is somebody else's treasure, this time to be clutter it.
Wait don't throw it away.
Pass it on to another.
Pick it up, put it back.
Put it back.
Switch it up.
ZOMBI pick it up.
Put it up.
Somebody put it back.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I wish that I could wake up to a well with no pollution but let's be real stick and talk about solutions.
Here's a couple tips we can switch for improvement.
Everyone admits we reduce the carbon footprint Reading of when you don't need it.
Nice in a room when you try to carpool, use public transportation.
Great.
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